HACKER Q&A
📣 ptnx

Anyone being ordered back into the office?


I work for a small (~100 employees) electronics manufacturer. Most of our developers have been working from home since mid-March. We have been ordered to return to the physical office, despite an ongoing uptick in COVID19 cases in the area. Despite safety precautions, myself and many of my co-workers are concerned and uncomfortable with this. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced a similar situation, and if so - how did you handle it?


  👤 non-entity Accepted Answer ✓
I might be going back in a couple weeks. They're bringing people back in office mid-June at limited capacity (25% returning at that time) so I'll see. This is at a large, but regional fortune 500 company.

👤 sharemywin
What are they doing about people with childcare problems?

👤 sharemywin
It's funny because one of the major recommendations is to keep having Zoom meetings. So, what's the point.

Do they have an open office?


👤 sharemywin
we're lucky. Our management is doing it in three phases. Phase 1 People that want to go in.

Phase 2 is encourage.

Phase 3 is require.

And we're not even at phase 1. And, I think they're talking about September for phase 1, maybe.